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Cover Image, Volume 132, Issue 6
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.41647
Subject(s) - low density polyethylene , cover (algebra) , polymer science , volume (thermodynamics) , materials science , polyethylene , composite material , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
The challenges of environmental, economic, and safety issues have forced scientists working with packaging products to replace polymers based on petrochemicals with biodegradable polymers. Domagoj Vrsaljko, Dejan Macut and Vera Kovačević describe the use of commercial silica (SiO 2 ) and calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) nanofillers as compatibilizers in immiscible PLA/LDPE blends. The possibilities of replacing standard commodity plastics, such as low‐density polyethylene (LDPE), based on non‐renewable mineral oil resources with the biodegradable renewable polymer polylactide (PLA) are investigated. The cover shows the effects of SiO 2 and CaCO 3 nanofillers in pure LDPE. (DOI: 10.1002/app.41414 )